APC worries over Mbaka’s new posting

THE South East zone of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed warry about the transfer of the fiery Catholic priest and Director of the Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr.
Ejike Mbaka.

The party said there was more to it than matches the routine transfer
of priests.

Mbaka was transferred from the Christ the King Parish (CKC), GRA,
Enugu, where he served since 1996 as the Parish Priest and head of the parish to Our Lady of Faith, Umuchigbo, Emene, a suburb of Enugu. By his new posting, he would serve as the Resident Priest of the parish, under two other priests.

Making his valedictory speech at the weekend, before relocating to his new parish, Mbaka alleged that those who plotted his transfer did so because they wants him to suffer, stressing that they neither considered his security nor his comfort.

“I know I am going to suffer… And let nobody come and brag about it, after all they are the Ohanaeze group, or the parishioners who know how to get the bishop. Because if I hear that type of story again, some people may cry and it should not be considered that the church can be politicised to the level of people deciding who to be sent out and who to bring in; and when to do it even without caring where the person will be.

“Because the quantum of the assets of the adoration ministry is the only thing I have a burden for now; where am I going to keep the assets of the ministry? And I am going to stay in one small room; that has only one small bed, and one small table and little toilet and bathroom. Where am I going to keep all the adoration assets?” he said.

Reacting to the development in a statement yesterday, APC’s South-East
Caucus Spokesman, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, said it was a wrong signal to punish the fearless priest for his prophecies, which has proved to be from God.

He said: “Our people need more liberation clergy, especially ones endowed with healing powers like Fr Ejike Mbaka. The liberation clergy were instrumental in returning Latin American countries back to democracy in the 1970s and 1980s. They pulled down Pinochet in Chile and toppled dictators across the globe.

“We should harvest and culture them instead of hounding them. Whereas, we accept that the transfer of priests is a routine exercise of the great Catholic Church; however we do not wholly accept a situation where the church allows external forces to influence transfer as the Mbaka’s case suggests. Otherwise, future liberation clergy who speak truth to power will be hamstrung to the detriment of the society.

“Our major concern is the security implications and the fate of his flocks who are mostly the downtrodden who may find it difficult to go to Emene for salvation and healing.

We frown at anything which will put Fr Mbaka in harm’s way or deny his flocks healing.

“As a party, we have watched with concern and trepidation the criticism, the attack, assault and unpleasant comments hurled against Fr. Mbaka since he providentially prophesied that President Buhari would win the 2015 elections.